Smell It!
dal 26/5/2009 al 26/6/2009
Segnalato da
CHEAP
Vaginal Davis
Katrina Daschner
Hubert Fichte
Lil Picard
Marina Grzinic
Aina Smid
William E. Jones
G.B. Jones
Bruce LaBruce
Candy Parker
Marie Losier
Paolo Mezzacapo de Cenzo
Karol Radziszewski
Deborah Schamoni
Isabell Spengler
Dasen Stambuk
Jaan Toomik
Jaan Paavle
Risto Laius
Joyce Wieland
Hollis Frampton
Dietmar Schwarzler
Robert Voros
26/5/2009
Smell It!
Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wuk, Wien
The exhibition presents artistic works that generate queer references or address the queer context within an open dialogue. Following the theme, productions from post-socialist countries will also be integrated, where reactionary and homophobic forces currently have a direct impact, and no sustained, visible queer tradition in artistic production exists.
Artists: CHEAP / Vaginal Davis, Katrina Daschner, Hubert Fichte / Lil Picard, Marina Grzinic / Aina Smid, William E. Jones, G.B. Jones, Bruce LaBruce / Candy Parker, Marie Losier, Paolo Mezzacapo de Cenzo, Karol Radziszewski, Deborah Schamoni, Isabell Spengler, Dasen Stambuk, Jaan Toomik / Jaan Paavle / Risto Laius, Joyce Wieland / Hollis Frampton.
Curation and Organization: Dietmar Schwärzler, Exhibition Architecture: Robert Vörös
Friendships are not only one of the most important forms of social coexistence in every single biography; they also represent an essential requirement in the art world for cooperations as well as work and production conditions. But friendships also manifest as a way of life or as a part of subcultural community forms.
Michael Foucault once said (as example) that the threat of homosexuality is not the sex one has with another rather the lifestyle one creates with another: friendships and networks. The exhibition Smell it! primarily presents artistic works that generate queer references or address the queer context within an open dialogue. Following the theme, productions from post-socialist countries will also be integrated, where reactionary and homophobic forces currently have a direct impact, and no sustained, visible queer tradition in artistic production exists.
The exhibition takes place in cooperation with the Polish Cultural Institute.
A magazine accompanying the exhibition will be published!
Interviews with Katrina Daschner / Dorit Margreiter, William E. Jones, Rosa von Praunheim, Joao Pedro Vale / Nuno Alexandre Ferreira / Pedro Campos Rodrigues.
Contributions by: Jan-Frederik Bandel, Christa Benzer, Victor Brand, Vaginal Davis, ____fabrics interseason, Martin Frey, Sylvia Gruber, Marina Grzinic, G.B. Jones, Mario Kozina, Bruce LaBruce, Pawel Leszkowicz, Boyd McDonald, Ulrike Müller / Dean Spade, Carola Platzek, Karol Radziszewski (DIK Fagazine featuring Fag Fighters), Hans Scheirl in cooperation with house of the very island, Dietmar Schwärzler, Stefanie Seibold.
Press contact
Lina Leonore Morawetz Tel: +43-1-401 2141 or 401 2142 lina.morawetz@wuk.at
Opening: May 27, 2009 at 7 pm
Kunsthalle Exnergasse
Wahringer Strasse 59, Wien
13-18 mon-fri, 11-14 Sat
free admittance